Please join us Friday, April 11th in the Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319) at 3:00pm for a talk by UHM Women’s Studies Associate Professor Mire Koikari. Professor Koikari will relate the significance of luncheon meat (aka SPAM) in Okinawa and its role as a narrative nexus for Okinawan expression on a variety of [...]

On Friday, March 28, Consul General of Japan in Honolulu Toyoei Shigeeda presented Monbukagakusho research scholarships to two UHM graduate students. From April 2014 Adam Wesely, in East Asian Languages and Literatures, will study late 19th century literature about Hokkaido at Hokkaido University. David Nguyen, in Urban and Regional Planning, will research disaster mitigation and [...]

Please join us Friday, April 4th at 3:30pm in the Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319) for a talk by Shunichi Takekawa entitled “Rivalry among Major Newspapers in Japan on the “Comfort Women” Issue.” Professor Takekawa will discuss the public discourse surrounding the treatment of “comfort women” in Japan’s major newspapers from the 1990s onward. [...]